The second investigation is focused on ICE Clear Europe, a division of the Atlanta based Intercontinental Exchange.
The main contract for sugar futures is Sugar No. 11, sold in New York at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
That latter step is what gutted a rival offer for the Big Board from Nasdaq OMX Group and Intercontinental Exchange.
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Technology firms logged 26 IPOs, including the biggest two deals by venture-backed companies last year: the stock debut of Intercontinental Exchange and OptionsXpress.
Congress wants that trading to be more like the action on regulated exchanges run by the likes of NYSE Euronext, Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group.
Stockpiles at Intercontinental Exchange-certified warehouses are down 35% this year and swill makers like Maxwell House and Folgers have already raised prices by 9% and 10%, respectively.
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Almost from its inception, CCX had a strong connection with the Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange, whose subsidiary is the International Petroleum Exchange, the world's largest petroleum futures options market.
Technology firms logged 26 IPOs, including the biggest two deals by venture-backed companies last year: the stock debut of Intercontinental Exchange and OptionsXpress (nasdaq: OXPS - news - people ).
Atlanta electronic exchange Intercontinental Exchange has managed to take more than a quarter of the market share in just over a year and is urgently trying to find a partner to expand its business more.
There has been some speculation that the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) could see interest from a company like NYSE Euronext or LSE, but the ICE is almost as big as NYSE Euronext, so there are significant hurdles there.
Intercontinental was led by Jeffrey Sprecher, who'd started the exchange as an over-the-counter energy trading system.
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